Best Favors Sayings
1081 Favors quotes by 790 unique authors
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An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a…
— Sharon Salzberg
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Chance generally favors the prudent.
— Joseph Joubert
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[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.…
— Carl Sagan
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"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
— Louis Pasteur
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being…
— Anita Brookner
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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
— Jonathan Swift
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Technology favors horrible people.
— Douglas Coupland
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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
— Seneca the Younger
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As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make…
— Lyn Nofziger
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This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I…
— Guy Kawasaki
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
— Ayn Rand
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government…
— Ayn Rand
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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none…
— Thomas Szasz
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Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the…
— Milton Friedman
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The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.
— Walter Russell
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
— Mark Twain
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While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether…
— Theobald Smith
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,…
— George Washington
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The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
— Richard Dawkins
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Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of…
— Pope John Paul II
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